The 2019 Caribbean Club Championship was the 21st edition of the

Caribbean Club Championship The Caribbean Club Championship, also known as the CFU Club Championship or CFU Club Champions' Cup, was an annual international football competition held amongst association football clubs that are members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). T ...

(also known as the CFU Club Championship), the first-tier annual international club

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competition in the

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region, held amongst clubs whose football associations are affiliated with the

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(CFU), a sub-confederation of

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. The tournament was played in

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between 12–19 May 2019.

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were the title holders, but did not compete in this season's CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship.

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were crowned Caribbean club champions for the second time and qualified for the

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. Runners-up Waterhouse and third place Capoise qualified for the

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, but fourth-placed Real Hope lost to

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winners Robinhood in a playoff and failed to qualify for the CONCACAF League.

Teams

Among the 31 CFU member associations, four of them were classified as professional leagues and each may enter two teams in the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship. However, two associations were not allowed to enter this season, and as a result, only four teams from two associations entered the 2019 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship (officially the 2019 Flow CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship for sponsorship reasons). ;Associations not allowed to enter * **The two teams from the Dominican Republic,

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( 2018 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol championship playoffs champions) and Atlético de San Francisco ( 2018 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol regular season winners), were not allowed to compete in the 2019 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship as the association did not register them on time. * **The two teams from Trinidad and Tobago,

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( 2017 TT Pro League champions) and

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( 2017 TT Pro League runners-up), were not allowed to compete in the 2019 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship as the association did not properly execute its club licensing programme.

Venue

The matches were played at the

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in Kingston.

Match officials

Referees *Reon Radix (

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) *Keylor Herrera ( Costa Rica) *Randy Encarnacion ( Dominican Republic) *José Raul Torres Rivera ( Puerto Rico) Assistant Referees *Iroots Appleton ( Antigua and Barbuda) *Kevon Clarke (

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) *Ronald Bruña (

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) *Yordanis Gomez (

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) *Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho (

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)

Squads

Matches

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CONCACAF League playoff

The CONCACAF League playoff was played between the 2019 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship fourth-placed team, Real Hope, and the 2019 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield winners, Robinhood, with the winners qualifying for the 2019 CONCACAF League preliminary round.

Top goalscorers

References

External links

Caribbean Club Championship
CONCACAF.com
CFU Club Championship
CFUfootball.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Caribbean Club Championship 2019

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